What is it about?
Park agencies are increasingly challenged to ensure visitation and support for parks due to a much greater diversity of constituents. Research to date on immigrants' participation in outdoor recreation has been limited to recreational patterns, motivations and constraints. This article maps and analyzes Parks Canada's community engagement during its work to establish Canada's first national urban park,
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Why is it important?
Results suggest that to effect change, planning must shift from an equality-based (everyone is treated the same with no special efforts to reach specific groups) process to an equity-based one (different stakeholder groups require different approaches to foster engagement)..
Perspectives
Today's immigrants are tomorrow's residents yet they are rarely treated as stakeholders in policy and planning decisions impacting parks, recreation and tourism development. As their share in the general population of countries increases, so must meaningful consultation to address their diverse needs and perspectives.
Marion Joppe
University of Guelph
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This page is a summary of: Mapping a Diverse Community's Engagement in Parks Planning, Leisure Sciences, January 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01490400.2017.1410740.
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